Thanks, I got a couple more around here, I think, that I'll post when I find 'em - Old and New Dreams for sure, maybe some others. I hope someone who has the Amon Duul and MJQ versions will post those, too.

yeah, while I'm a massive Takayanagi fan, I've never been overly fond of that Lonely Woman LP. It's an interesting side of him, another very welcome glimpse into the man, but ultimately not as hair-raising as his best stuff. Still, the track fulfilled the thread request..

ok, here's a better offering, the 8 Bold Souls version from their 1991 record Sideshow, their 2nd of three and in my opinion their best. I love all of them but was *slightly* disappointed in Last Option. still think Sideshow is where they really nailed things...

Is it totally presumptuous of me to post the original version? I've been enjoying everyone else's but feel like a leech. Just in case someone clicks on this thread by accident w/o knowing the original, here it is, the song that is probably responsible for getting me into jazz (this past weekend):

I don't have any way of posting it, but Cruel Frederick did a standard-ish but very good version on their SST album "The Birth Of The Cruel" (I think it was that album, may've been the second one they did).

I just did a stroll around slsk... there are songs called "Lonely Woman" by Sarah Vaughn and Otomo Yoshihide, but they're not that song. Too bad, I was really drooling for versions by those two. I have a few others queued up.

Excellent thread, by the way. A few months back I was thinking how great it would be to have a compilation of Lonely Womans, but I was too lazy and not enough of a douchebag to apply myself to it. It's good to have this thread doing the work for me.

Am I the only one who thinks that a version with someone throat singing the melody would be just about the raddest thing ever?

So it turns out the one by Pat Metheny from 1984 is the Horace Silver song. Which is funny, because it's Metheny with Charlie Haden and Billy Higgins, on an album with three other Ornette covers, just not "LW".

Leaving off the Takayanagi version, the eleven that I have now add up to 79:42.

I really like the idea of Jazz Douchebags rolling series of threads for multiple versions. I'm changing my vote from "Giant Steps" to "Take the A Train," because there's a solo piano version by Sun Ra that I heard once, that completely blew my mind.

Honestly on this topic I'm real easy to please. Duke would be great. Trane would be great. Monk would be great. Cole Porter or Irving Berlin tune would be great. We gotta lotta options here, and there's no hurry.

I've listened to it four times now -- I think it's a case of admiring the arrangement more than actually liking it. He doesn't bite off more than he can chew, but he bites off an awfully big chunk, and it's sort of amazing to sit and listen to him chew it.

I've decided that Ornette's Lonely Woman is my favourite piece of jazz music. Not a lot seems to come close - or does it? IS there anything else out there as melodic and plaintive and slightly-skewed as this? Big question, I know.